Limited Submission – National Institute for Health – Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) – RFA-MD-20-008

 

Purpose: This initiative will support multidisciplinary research examining mechanisms underlying racial and ethnic disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity, testing the efficacy and/or effectiveness of multi-level interventions, and/or research strategies to optimally and sustainably deliver proven-effective prevention and treatment interventions to reduce these disparities. This FOA will support original, innovative, multidisciplinary research aimed at advancing the understanding, prevention, and reduction of maternal mortality or morbidity among racial and ethnic minority women and socioeconomically disadvantaged women including those in rural settings.

 

Research projects can focus on any point across the continuum of care, from preconception care to postpartum care up to 1 year after labor or delivery. Research projects are expected to provide a theoretical framework that addresses the intersection of domains of influence (biological, behavioral, physical, sociocultural, psychosocial, and health care system) and levels of influence (individual, interpersonal, community, and societal). Examples of individual-level factors include pre-pregnancy obesity, maternal hypertension, gestational weight gain, peripartum obesity, pre-eclampsia, pre-diabetes, and gestational diabetes on maternal post-partum health outcomes in women from racial and/or ethnic populations. Other examples at higher levels of influence include, but are not limited to, patient-clinician communication; clinician implicit and explicit bias, availability or accessibility of healthcare; healthcare insurance and reimbursement policies; structural factors in the healthcare settings; availability of social services; social, family, and peer support; interpersonal, community, or societal-level discrimination or violence exposure; the local food environment; and the physical and chemical environment in the home, workplace, and community. Please refer to the NIMHD Research Framework for additional detail.

 

Projects may include intervention research to test new or adapted interventions; health services research to examine the effectiveness of new or existing programs, services, or policies; or implementation research to examine the uptake and sustainability of evidence-based interventions or practices. Health policy, health care system, social and/or behavioral, and clinical interventions are all welcome. Quantitative and mixed-methods approaches are acceptable. Reduction of racial and ethnic disparities may be measured through studies comparing outcomes of racial and ethnic minority and White women or through studies evaluating improvement in outcomes for racial and ethnic minority women only.

 

Funding Amount/ Project Period: $500,000 per year, for up to 5 years

 

Link to Funding Opportunity Announcement

 

Institutional Limit: 1

 

Internal Competition: To participate in the university’s selection process,please upload the following,assembled into a single PDF file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this portal with a copy to your Associate Dean for Research by April 28, 2020:

1.      Names and departments or affiliations of the Project Director and other key personnel or partners;

2.      Title of program and/or funding opportunity announcement number;

3.      Brief project description (2 pages maximum);

4.      Brief biographical sketch

 

A committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.

 

For questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu), or call 257-2861.

 

Agency Deadline:  May 29, 2020